Southfield woman learns she's no lottery winner, after all

8:07 PM,
Jan. 22, 2014

On the Daily 4 Midday drawing on Tuesday, the numbers were announced wrong.

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Some Michigan Lottery players on Tuesday might have done a double take when the Daily 4 Midday drawing was announced.

The automated voice that read the numbers was wrong. Instead of 0-6-4-6, the voice read 0-5-4-6.

Brenda Johnson, 62, of Southfield said she drove to a lottery office in Livonia, thinking she had won some money, but learned otherwise when she got there. Instead of the $2,604 she expected, she was offered some tea or coffee and a T-shirt when a staffer realized the mistake. ...